RE: [AGA Member] Grey Algae in Java Moss

["Don Smolev" <don.smolev@themarcongroup.net>]

I don"t keep Amano shrimp anymore. I have found that adding Healthguard by Seachem and Algaefix once a week when I do a water change (about 40%)along with running the water through an ultraviolet tube keeps the water crystal clear and virtually algae free. It has the added benefit of eliminating most bacterial and viral problems. The chemicals are completely benign to the plants and fish.
The problem is that the Algaefix will kill the shrimp and I'm not sure that the grey stuff is algae. I had hoped somebody might have had this problem in the past and could offer some advice from expweriance. It is not overrunning the tank so I don't want to change a routine that has been very successful. But thanks for the advice.
-----Original Message-----
From: Amit Brucker [mailto:amitb@gtek.co.il]
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 12:55 PM
To: aga-member@thekrib.com
Subject: Re: [AGA Member] Grey Algae in Java Moss


This is interesting...
Can you photo this mass ???
I would take some infected moss and introduce it to an Amano shrimp - It
might eat the gray stuff  but also the moss....
In my case (I have 20 in a 100 gallon tank) they didn't yet touch the moss.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Smolev" <don.smolev@themarcongroup.net>
To: <aga-member@thekrib.com>
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 4:38 PM
Subject: [AGA Member] Grey Algae in Java Moss


> I have a 90 gallon heavily planted 21/2 year old tank with little, if any,
algae (just a few hard green spots on old broad leaves). I need to scrape
the glass perhaps once a month. However, Java Moss  planted on some
driftwood, among anubias, has developed a grey like mass growing throughout
only the moss. It grows in small masses nowhere else but the moss. It does
not impede the growth of the moss but is unsightly to my eye but not really
noticable unless you get up close. I tried algaefix but it has no effect on
this algae (I'm assuming it is an algae). I have removed the moss down to
thestrands adhering strongly to the wood. As soon as it grows back the grey
masses appear again. I can find no reference to it in any of the literature.
Does anyone have an idea what it may be and what, if anything, can be done.
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